President Trump has nominated Jonathan McKernan to become director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). McKernan stepped down from the board of directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to be considered for the CFPB directorship. McKernan...
A labor union representing workers in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has filed two lawsuits against Acting Director Russ Vought’s efforts to stop work at the regulatory agency. Axios reports the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) filed its...
Russ Vought, the new acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), has informed the Federal Reserve it will not be requesting funds to finance its operations for Fiscal Year 2025 while informing the agency’s workforce that its headquarters will...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has another new leader with the appointment of Russell Vought, the newly sworn-in director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), taking over the agency as acting director. The Wall Street Journal,...
New leadership at federal agencies, a possible cause for some of the Los Angeles wildfires, and new HGTV shows that don’t seem very new. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of Feb. 3-7. Hit: The Right Man for the...
Pending Home Sales Slide to Nearly Three-Year Low as Buyers Pull Back
